Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Resus Practitioner
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Job Overview
As part of our dedicated multidisciplinary team, you will play a vital role in supporting the recognition, assessment and management of patients who are acutely unwell or at risk of clinical deterioration. Working in a fast-paced environment, you will respond to medical emergencies across the hospital, helping to deliver timely interventions that improve patient safety and outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide expert clinical support for patients experiencing, or at risk of, clinical deterioration, life-threatening events, or cardiac arrest.
- Respond rapidly to medical emergencies, delivering timely assessment, intervention and ongoing management.
- Support the development, implementation and evaluation of policies, protocols and pathways relating to the deteriorating patient and resuscitation practice.
- Promote best practice in the recognition and management of deteriorating patients through education, support and collaboration with ward teams.
About You
You will be a motivated and confident practitioner with:
- Significant experience caring for acutely unwell and deteriorating patients within an acute healthcare setting.
- Proven skills in managing medical emergencies and delivering high-quality resuscitation care.
- Sound clinical judgement and the ability to remain calm and decisive under pressure.
- Experience contributing to the development and implementation of clinical guidelines, policies or quality improvement initiatives related to patient deterioration and emergency care.
Why Join the Rapid Response Team?
This is an excellent opportunity to become part of a highly skilled, supportive and passionate multidisciplinary team committed to delivering outstanding care across the Trust. You'll work alongside experienced clinicians in a role that is both challenging and rewarding, where your expertise will have a direct impact on patient safety, clinical excellence and improved outcomes.
If you're looking to broaden your experience in acute and emergency care while making a real difference to patients across the organisation, we'd love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
This is a clinically focused and educational role at Frimley Health.
- The post holder will support the Band 7 in the day-to-day provision of the Critical care Outreach services across Frimley Health.
- This is a clinically orientated role that will require the post holder to work weekends, evenings and night shifts as required for service delivery.
- Working within the Rapid Response Team providing nursing intervention with appropriate assessment and management of the deteriorating patient and those at risk of deteriorating in Frimley Health.
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Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme.
- We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
- Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
- We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- BSc in relevant subject
- Post registration qualification in critical care/acute care
- ILS provider
- Teaching& assessing/mentorship qualification
- Qualified registered healthcare professional (NMC/HCPC)
Desirable criteria
- ILS instructor or working towards
- ALS Provider
- PILS provider
Skills
Essential criteria
- Good interpersonal skills with the ability to manage difficult/stressful situations and work under pressure
- Able to prioritise workload (self and others) and meet deadlines.
- Effectively communicate with all levels of the organisation
Desirable criteria
- Exposure of working at the inter-face between the hospital and the pre-hospital environment
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in managing deteriorating patients
- Ability to assess, plan and implement care with minimal supervision
- Able (with supervision) to undertake post incident investigations to ensure best practise and evidence-based care
Desirable criteria
- Physical assessment course or willingness to undertake
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About Us
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) is proud of its strong reputation, record of achievement and ambition for the future. We serve a population of over 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and South Buckinghamshire, and remain committed to improving the health and wellbeing of our communities.
Our new organisational strategy – FHFT 2030 – sets out our ambition to be the best place to receive care and the best place to work in the NHS. Underpinned by our Trust values – Committed to Excellence, Working Together, Facing the Future, and being a modern, compassionate, Healthcare Organisation – we are creating a culture where our people can thrive and patients always come first.
We continue to invest heavily in our services and facilities. This includes the development of a new hospital at Frimley Park, major expansion of diagnostics and inpatient capacity, and the continued transformation of services across our sites. We have already delivered a brand-new £100m state-of-the-art Heatherwood Hospital, a £49m Emergency Assessment Centre at Wexham Park, and a £10m upgrade to maternity services.
We are also committed to sustainability and the NHS Net Zero ambition. Our new hospital and estate developments are being designed to be environmentally responsible, energy efficient, and future-proofed, featuring on-site renewables energy and intelligent energy systems. Through our green plan, we are embedding sustainable practices across all areas of care and operations, ensuring we reduce our environmental impact while improving population health and wellbeing. Our staff are key to helps us deliver on our ambition and to ensure sustainability is a core component of care delivery and our operations.
Alongside estates’ investments, we are embedding a strong focus on digital innovation and quality improvement. Our electronic patient record (Epic), launched in 2024, is already enabling safer, more connected, and more effective care for patients, while giving staff the tools they need to do their best work. Our electronic patient record also supports safe and effective digitised care pathways, savings time and carbon, whilst delivering excellent quality of care.
Everything we do is guided by our values, shaping how we care for patients, support colleagues, and build a sustainable future for healthcare together.
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